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NEW PLANTS. 



ECONOPSIS NIPALENSIS, Nepalese Meconopsis {Bot. Mag., t. 5585).— 



Piipaveriicea;. 



This nuble 



plant was ori- 



f; i II a 1 1 y d i s - 

 by Wallich, 



covered 



Nepal, and more recently 

 by Dr. J. D. Hooker, in 

 Sikkim. It is a tall, ro- 

 bust, sparingly-brsnched 

 herb, three to five feet 

 high, full of oiaiige-yellovv 

 sap. The radical leaves 

 are petioled, one and a 

 half foot long ; the leaves 

 on the stem sessile, all of 

 them linear - spathula*e, 

 and pinnatifid. Flowers 

 two or three inches in 

 diameter, colour pale gold 

 or sulphur-yellow. " A 

 more stately ar.d beautiful 

 plant can hurdly be ima- 

 gined, except the holly- 

 hock, which it somewhat 

 resembles in miniaturi'.'' 



Lobelia nicotianjE- 

 roLiA, Tobacco- leaved Lo- 

 belia {Bot. Mag., t. 5587). 

 — Lobeliacece. A stately 

 heib, native of the Neil- 



ANCYLOGYNE LONGIFLOEA. 



MECONOPSIS NIPALENSIS. 



gherry and other mountains of the Indian 

 peninsula, and of Ceylon. It is of stout 

 habit, six to twelve feet liigh, stem as thick 

 as the arm, leaves narrow, lanceolate, one to 

 two feet long ; raceme simple or compourfd, 

 the branches a foot and upwards long, 

 densely covered with close-set flowers, form- 

 ing pyramidal summits of a pale lilac 

 colour. 



Anctlogtne longiflora, Long -flowered, 

 Ancylogyne {Bot. Mag., t. 5588). — Acan- 

 thacece. A most beautiful plant, witii some- 

 thing of the inflorescence of Russellia 

 juncea, introduced from Guayaquil by 

 Messrs. Veitch and Sons. The plant appa- 

 rently sufFruticose, leaves four to ten inches 

 long, obscurely subserrate. Flowers in a 

 drooping, elongated branched panicle, one- 

 eighth to one-fourth of an inch long; corolla 

 cylindrical and tubular, bright vinous 

 purple ; anthers bright yellow. " It is 

 itudoubiedly one of the finest tropical 

 Acantliacece ever introduced into this coun- 

 try, and cannot fail to be a most important 

 accession to our stoves." 



Myrsiphyllum asparagoides, Aspara- 

 gus-leaved Mgrsiphyllum {Bot. Mag., t. 

 5584). — Liliacece. This pretty plant was 



introduced so long ago as 1702, but has long since gone out of cultivation. It is 



